Child s combined rocking-chair and cradle



(No Model.) J. RIDENOUR.

CHILDS GQMBINED ROCKING CHAIR AND CRADLE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT .EricE.

JOHN BIDENOUE, OF MOUNT VERNON, INDIANA.

CHILDS COMBINED ROCKING-CHAIR AND CRADLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,862, dated July 5, 1887.

Application filed March '7, 1887. Serial No. 230,013. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN RIDENOUR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of Posey and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Childrens Combined Rocking- Chairs and Cradles, of which the following is a specification.

The invention is a combined cradle and rocking-chair for the use of infants and small children; and its object is to provide a cheap, strong, and durable device, which can be used either by a child alone or with a companion, and in which a bed for an infant can be occupied while the device is being used as a rock ing'chair by one or more children.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the rocker and its combination with the seat, and, further, in certain details of construction and arrangement, hereinafter described, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the combined cradle and rockingchair complete. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section on the line a; x of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a central longitudinal section of the invention.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A A designate the rockers, preferably made integral with each other, or a double rocker made in one piece and provided with the similar and equal side parts, A A, each of which is substantially a rocker. The parts or rockers A are made very wide and thick for the sake of strength, and are rounded downwardly and outwardly on theirinner sides,in order to make the treads of the rockers A A suitably narrow to rock with freedom.

a is a transverse bar, with its ends secured centrally upon the rockers A to brace and stay them upon each other.

13 is the seat-frame composed of the longitudinal bars I) b IN) and the vertical bars 12 b The bars I) b are similar, and each runs from the upper surface near one end of a rocker, A, to a similar point of the same surface near the opposite end. The bar I) on one side runs parallel to the corresponding bar, 5, a proper distance above the latter, and has its ends secured in the upper surface of the rocker on that side. the device have their outer ends secured at similar points near each end of the corresponding rocker, A, and their inner ends secured to or integralwith the upper ends of the vertical bars 0 b on that side, which bars, on the two sides, connect and brace the bars I) and 1). Thus an open space, If, is left on one side for the frame, to enable the children to reach the seats.

G0 are the seatsattached to the bars 11, between the vertical bars and the inner surface of the rockers.

D D are similar weights provided with spindles d d, which enter proper recesses in the outer surface of the ends of the double rocker, as shown. The said weight performs a function hereinafter explained.

E is a bed-frame supported upon the rockers and the brace-rod a between the seats and capable of holding a bed for an infant.

It is evident from the described construction that the device can be made cheaply, is very solid, strong, and durable, and that it would be almost impossible to rock or turn it over and throw the children out. If one child only desire to rock, the weight D on the side he occupies is detached, and the weight of the child more or less is compensated for by the gravitation of the opposite weight. The rocking is performed by the same motion of the body of the occupant as in ordinary rockingchairs.

The rockers can be made of any suitable material, but are preferably of iron. 7

Having thus described my invention I claiml. The improved cradle herein described and shown, comprising the rockers made integral with each other, the seat-frame composed of the horizontal bars I) bf, secured at their ends to the rockers, the vertical bars b connecting the horizontal bars, the said bars b extending the entire length of the cradle on one side and divided at their center on the other side to form the open space b and the seats secured to the bars b between the bars b The bars I) on the opposite side of and the adjacent portions of the rockers, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the rockers, seat- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

frame, and seats, of the detachable weights JOHN RIDENOUR. 5 provided with spindles to enter recesses in the Witnesses:

- opposite ends of the device, substantially as PAUL HOWARD,

and for the purpose specified. JOHN L. SHORE. 

